It's August, the autumn breeze is bleak, the leaves are falling, and the moon is bright.

At the third watch, sure enough, a team of nearly 10,000 people quietly approached the camp of the Bingzhou Army.

Sure enough, as Sima Yi expected, it was the Hebei and Youth Alliances who came. Under the strong advice of Guo Tu and Xiao Ji, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang decided to launch a night attack while the Bingzhou army was far away and tired, and each selected 5,000 of the most elite soldiers.

The Jizhou army was commanded by Chen Huan, Yuan Shang's favorite general, and the Qingzhou army was led by Jiang Yiqu, a veteran military general.

"Shhh...... The camp is so quiet, weird and terrifying, I am afraid that there will be fraud! Jiang Yiqu reined in the reins, looked back left and right, and expressed the doubts in his heart, "Come on, hurry up and catch up with General Chen Huan in front, let him retreat quickly, I am afraid that the state army has been prepared, if it robs the camp, it will be ambushed!" ”

"No!"

The scout received the military order, and quickly whipped his horse to the front to chase the Jizhou army.

Chen Huan listened to Jiang Yiqu's words, and laughed at his cronies on the left and right: "The Qingzhou soldiers are marching slowly, so Jiang Yiqu sees that the first merit is about to be set up by us, so he is alarmist. And the state army is tired from afar, and this is one of them; During the day, he issued a war letter and did not take precautions, and this is the second thing. Tonight, if you just follow me to rob the camp, you will definitely make a great achievement, glory and wealth, just around the corner! ”

Some people who have made great achievements have echoed: "What General Chen said is extremely true, and he is willing to follow the general to make meritorious contributions!" ”

Some cautious people said: "The enemy camp is quiet, and it is really strange and terrible." What General Jiang Yiqu said is also reasonable. Besides, along the way, I have not met a patrolman, and there are many suspicions, so you should be more careful. ”

At this moment, there was a sound of weapons striking in front of him, as well as a small-scale shouting of killing, and he disappeared without a trace.

A moment later, a lieutenant came to report: "Back to General Chen, the forward troops have encountered a patrol of twenty people, and they have all been killed, and not a single one has escaped!" ”

"Haha...... Did you see that? It is not for nothing that we have encountered the Patrol of the State. Rather, the rebels were negligent and did not strengthen their defenses. The front is less than two miles away from the enemy camp, and the time of meritorious service is tonight, and you will work hard with me! ”

Chen Huan took the lead, and the generals followed. The momentum rushed towards the camp of the state army. After a while, they rushed to the front of the camp. It was guarded only by a few dozen soldiers. A burst of arrows shot back, and Chen Huan waved his troops and rushed into the camp.

Suddenly, the drums and horns sounded in unison, and torches lit up in all directions at the same time. The shouts of killing instantly became deafening. In the camp tents, in the trenches, in the jungle, and among the weeds, groups of elite soldiers poured out, all of them were fully armed and armed with sharp weapons, besieging the Jizhou army that came to rob the camp in the center, harvesting good heads. For a while, people's heads were rolling, and flesh and blood were flying.

In the firelight, a general holding a tiger-headed golden gun, like a leisurely stroll in the chaotic army, was invincible everywhere he went, and the Jizhou soldiers were all awarded. In the blink of an eye, he came to Chen Huan and shouted: "Chen Huan has no plan, can you recognize Zhang Junyi in the river stream?" ”

Zhang He is the same name as Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Gao Lan as the "Hebei Four Court Pillars", and is a legendary general in the Yuan army, how can Chen Huan not recognize it? In addition, he was in an ambush, and he was already frightened, and in a panic, he was stabbed in the throat by Zhang He and picked off the horse.

The main general of the robbery camp is dead, and the remaining Jizhou soldiers are leaderless, plus they are ambushed, and they have no intention of fighting. Fleeing for their lives, kneeling and begging for mercy, the elite team of 5,000 people collapsed in less than a moment.

Seeing that Chen Huan did not listen to the advice and was greedy for merit, he was so ambushed that the team of 5,000 people was almost wiped out. Jiang Yiqu, who was behind, was shocked and hurriedly ordered to retreat. Just retreated more than three miles, to a hilly area, a gong sounded, the ambush on the hillside was exhausted, random arrows were shot, and the Qingzhou soldiers were killed and wounded.

A white horse and silver spear, leading three thousand elites to block the retreat of the Qingzhou army, it was Changshan Zhao Zilong. Behind him, the banner of the word "Zhao" fluttered in the wind, majestic.

"Where will the thief go? Dismount and surrender quickly, spare you from death! Zhao Yun immediately crossed the gun, pointed the halberd at Jiang Yiqu, and ordered to dismount and surrender.

Jiang Yiqu fought desperately and couldn't break through, so he could only dismount and ask for surrender: "The general spares his life, I was originally a military general under Yuan Gong, and following Yuan Tan was really not my intention, and I was sent by the order and had to do it as a last resort." I also hope that people will be left under the gun, and Rao will not die! ”

Jiang Yiqu surrendered, and other Qingzhou soldiers knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, more than 5,000 elite soldiers fled 20%, killed 30%, and the rest all disarmed and surrendered. A camp robbery ended in a crushing defeat for the coalition forces.

Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were shocked when they heard that the men and horses who robbed the camp had been ambushed. Leaving Guo Tu and Xiao Ji to lead 10,000 horses to guard the camp, they each led the main army to rescue Jiang Yiqu and Chen Huan. Halfway through, suddenly there was a sound of killing, and the troops of the state were rolling all over the mountains, and I don't know how many people and horses.

There were about 20,000 people in ambush in the mountains, and the four generals such as Wang Shuang, Zhou Cang, Zhu Gongdao, and Lu Kuang commanded the Jiqing coalition army from four directions.

Zhao Yun escorted Jiang Yiqu to see Yuan Mai, and Sima Yi offered his plan again: "Since Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang have already dispatched their nests, the camp must be empty, so Jiang Yiqu can lead the way in front, deceive the coalition army camp, and go straight to the enemy's lair." ”

"Zhongda's plan is very clever, the two generals Zilong and Junyi can act according to the plan, leaving only Yuan Zhi and Zhu Ling to guard the camp!" Yuan Mai dropped two arrows and ordered Zhang He and Zhao Yun to rob each other's camp together.

Not long after, Zhao Yun and Zhang He led 20,000 horses and horses to drive Jiang Yiqu and others to the front of the coalition camp and ordered Jiang Yiqu to call the door. The soldiers guarding the gate recognized Jiang Yiqu, so they no longer doubted it and quickly opened the camp gate.

As soon as the gate of the village was opened, Zhao Yun and Zhang He rushed in, and everywhere they went, they were invincible, killing the coalition army crying and calling their mothers, and they didn't understand what was going on for a while?

"Set fire to the village!" While commanding the Qu battle, Zhao Yun ordered the fire.

It didn't take long for the tents of the coalition forces to start burning one after another, one igniting ten, ten igniting hundred, burning more and more, burning more and more, and the night sky was red for a while. The baggage equipment and some grain and grass of the coalition army suddenly turned into green smoke and burned to the ground.

Guo Tu and Xiao Ji could not recover the decline, so they had to lead the remnants of the defeated army to abandon the camp and retreat in the direction of the plain, while sending people to report to Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, asking the two to retreat quickly. Their own camp was in flames, and Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan didn't wait for Guo Tu's scouts to report, they knew that there was an accident in the rear, so they hurriedly collected their troops and retreated.

The coalition forces had no intention of fighting, and fought and retreated along the way, and were pursued and killed by Wang Shuang, Zhou Cang, Zhu Gongdao, Lu Kuang and other four troops in turn, with countless casualties. finally got rid of the entanglement of the pursuers, and ran into the men and horses who robbed the camp again, and was killed by Zhao Yun and Zhang He, and lost another five or six thousand people.

After paying a heavy price, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shangcai were like lost dogs, leading the remnants of the defeated army to retreat into the plain city eighty miles away, ordering to keep the door behind closed while counting the losses. After the statistics, it was learned that the coalition forces in World War I had lost more than 30,000 people last night, nearly half of the losses, and almost all the grain and grass were lost.

Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang knew that the general trend had gone, and they looked at each other, and they had nothing to say for a while. No one expected that the two brothers would fight back and forth, and in the end they would make wedding dresses for others.

After a long time, Yuan Tan finally spoke: "You and I fought back and forth, but I didn't expect that in the end, Yuan bought this sick man, and now the state army is strong, it is difficult to compete, I want to retreat back to Linzi, temporarily avoid its edge." ”

Yuan Tan has his own plans in his heart, looking at this form, Jizhou can't rob Yuan to buy it, it is better to honestly go back to Qingzhou to keep his one-third of an acre. In case Yuan Mai is provoked, he waives his army into Qingzhou, and he even loses his territory, what else can he talk about inheriting his father's business and being the overlord of the north? Anyway, Jizhou is Yuan Shang's territory, so let the two of them eat dogs, and when they lose, they will make a comeback, and they may be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Yuan Tan's thoughts, Yuan Shang naturally figured it out clearly, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why did my brother say this? You and I are in the same breath, one is prosperous and the other is lost. If you retreat a foot, Yuan Mai will inevitably enter a zhang, and after the plain is your Qingzhou territory, if you abandon the city and go, the state army will inevitably drive straight in, Taishan County, Ji/Nanguo will no longer be yours also! When Yuan Maibing came to the city of Zi, it was too late to regret it! ”

"I only have 80,000 military horses in Qingzhou, and I came to Jizhou to fight, brought 50,000 horses, and after several battles, I have lost more than half. If there is another mistake, it means that Shouqingzhou is also powerless, and he will never dare to compete with the sick man again. Yuan Tan said his worries with a worried face.

After losing most of the land in the western part of Jizhou, Yuan Shang only had six places left in his hands, including Pingyuan, Bohai, Leling, Anping, Hejian and Qinghe, if Yuan Tan retreated back to Qingzhou, he would only be beaten passively, so Yuan Shang had to persuade Yuan Tan to stay and fight side by side anyway.

"Brother Hue, isn't there still a younger brother fighting side by side with you?"

Yuan Shang patted Yuan Tan's shoulder, looking like a fellow flesh and blood compatriot who lived and died together. It's just ironic that just half a month ago, in order to compete for Yuan Shao's inheritance, the two brothers looked like they didn't share the sky, either you die or I die, it seems that power is really a magical thing, which can not only make brothers become enemies, but also make enemies become brothers.

"You only have 30,000 people in your hands, and coupled with low morale, even if you and I join forces, it will be difficult to compete with the sick man." Yuan Tan expressed his disappointment with the combat effectiveness of Yuan Shang's subordinates, the strength of the Jizhou army and his own Qingzhou army was between the two sides, and even if they were united, they might not be the opponents of the Bingzhou army.

Yuan Shang quietly reached out and hugged Yuan Tan's shoulder, and said softly: "Brother, don't worry, I still have a clever plan to break the sick man, and listen to me slowly." ”

Anyway, there are only himself and Yuan Tan in the room, if this guy doesn't listen to his own words, insists on retreating back to Qingzhou to protect himself, and throws himself on the front line to fight hard with Yuan Mai, he will simply strangle him to death. After Yuan Tan's death, he seized his military power and occupied Qingzhou as a foundation in order to make a comeback, which may be a good plan. (To be continued......)